Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, said on Wednesday that she had summoned the Russian ambassador to Ottawa, Oleg Stepanov, to protest against the recent Russian attacks in Dnipro which killed nearly fifty people, as well as the recent statements by his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.

Joly said the meeting aims to “make it clear that we do not accept the sheer brutality of Russia’s recent attacks on civilians in Dnipro and to condemn face to face the anti-Semitic remarks made by Lavrov”, as reported ‘Ottawa Citizen’.

Lavrov claimed hours earlier that the United States had organized a “coalition” with Western countries to “resolve the Russian question” in a manner similar to Adolf Hitler’s “final solution” to exterminate the Jews.

“Just as Napoleon mobilized almost all of Europe against the Russian Empire, and just as Hitler mobilized, captured and armed most European countries against the Soviet Union, the United States organized a coalition with almost all the European countries, not just NATO members, for a war against our country through Ukraine,” he said.

After that, Canada’s foreign minister insisted that “Lavrov’s comments, after previous anti-Semitic comments, are a complete disrespect for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.”

“Let’s be very clear: the Russian regime is the aggressor, not the victim,” Joly remarked, arguing that Canada “will always continue to counter hatred and those who manipulate the truth,” according to his profile on the social network Twitter. . .